Being in Nothingness - The Adolescent Experience of Imprisonment

• NCJ Number: 104745
• Journal: Child and Youth Services Volume: 8 Issue: 3-4 Dated: (1987) Pages: 89-107
• Author(s): Z Eisikovits; E Guttmann
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 19 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper examines the existential experience of adolescents in prison.

Abstract

Qualitative indepth interviews have been undertaken to explore the dimensions of time,space, and 'others' which come together in what Novak called the 'experience of nothingness.' (Author abstract)